MIGUEL ORTIZ BERROCAL (Villanueva de Algaidas, Malaga, 1933 - Antequera, Malaga, 2006).
Untitled. Original work for one of the illustrations of "Anabase" by Saint John Perse.
Gouache on paper.
Attached certificate of authenticity issued by the artist.
Size: 33 x 49,5 cm; 51 x 67 cm (frame).
Original work for one of the illustrations of "Anabase" by Saint John Perse. Anabase" is a collection of poems by Saint-John Perse published in January 1924 in La Nouvelle Revue française.
Trained in Madrid, Berrocal decided to devote himself to sculpture during his stay in Paris in 1955, although he has also devoted himself to graphic work. He has exhibited in Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the United States, received the gold medal of the Bronze of Padua, the Grand Prize of Honour at the Brazil Biennial, and was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. He is represented in the Museums of Modern Art in New York and Paris, the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, the National Gallery in Rome and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.